by The Blast Vitality Men’s T20 will be reduced by 14 to 12 groups of group groups of 2026 to rationalize the competition and facilitate the workload on the players of the last reshuffle of the English domestic cricket.
The reduction in the number of games will allow you to play the competition in a block, with the finals day held before the hundreds of August, rather than going to hibernation during the summer holidays before returning to life in September.
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The hope is that this will allow counties to keep foreign players throughout the competition period, to play more frostable games of the week and to give players more rest between the matches. This will also considerably reduce the number of hated consecutive lights.
The 18 first class counties voted by the change in accordance with the recommendations of the examination of the domestic game program of men led by the county and in harmony with the wishes of the players’ union, the professional association of cricket players.
The counties will be divided into three regional groups of six – the counties playing each other at home, plus a home match and an outside match against a county outside their group – giving each county the opportunity to play all the others on a bearing base.
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The explosion frequentation figures have fallen strongly from a peak of 950,000 tickets sold in 2019, first struck by COVVID, then by the introduction of the hundred in 2021. The journal’s steering group, made up of six county leaders, as well as the ECB and the PCA, estimates that the re -evaluation of the appliances will not be enough to relaunch the explosion and the movements More innovative – like the central investment fund.
Where there was previously a generalized opposition in the county at any reduction in the number of lucrative breath games, the hundreds of bands – unmoved counties should receive a little more than 24 million pounds sterling, hosts of 18 million pounds sterling – gave more curly counties.
There is yet no agreement on the future of the county championship, but mood music suggests against any radical change, despite the ACP advocacy that a reduction of 14 to 12 games is “the only reasonable option”. A decision will be made by the counties before the championship resumed for the last three laps in September.
The number of games in the higher level of the women’s blast competition will also go from 14 to 12 years, while Yorkshire will go to level one, each county playing six games at home and six outside. The level two teams will meet in a single group, playing at home.
